Trevor Noah says it all:
I’m actually pretty shocked by the Fox news editorial line over this stuff. It’s one thing to be critical of “Biden’s handling” of the crisis. That’s totally expected for a partisan outfit. But criticizing the country that has been invaded for having Nazis in its population when Russia is a powerful dictatorship and has these guys:
or the US has these guys, for that matter:
The rise of the global far right, in all its permutations, in the last few years has been well documented. But when it comes to repressive, authoritarian nationalism, there are a few stand-outs and Ukraine isn’t one of them. Russia, on the other hand, is at the top of the list.
The pro-Putin faction in America is pretty slick. They are always “just asking questions” and giving “both sides” of the story, but needless to say, the emphasis and narrative tells the story they want to tell, even if they leave themselves an out when confronted with what they are doing.
Ukraine has a colorful fringe group of Nazis, it does, and they are good at getting attention. But they are not running anything in Ukraine, whether government or miilitary. There’s always a chance that Ukraine could go authoritarian when all is said and done. War opens up all kinds of opportunities for violent fascists. But Ukraine is not a fascist country at the moment which should be obvious.
And ask yourself why these Russia apologists would be upset about fascism all of a sudden when they love the Hungarian authoritarian leader Viktor Orban and seem to have nothing bad to say about Vladimir Putin.
This group is very confused. And that is being used very efficiently by Russian propaganda.